Colts beat Bears - who gets the deflated ball?

Even if the mc's weren't, I don't buy that at all btw. Poles wouldn't want anything to do with him.

Tom Brady would love this board with all the deflated balls that are given out season after season.

Winning isn't everything.  Last place in the division is not THAT bad.  The boys are trying, right?  Hand out the participation ribbons to 'em at the end of the season, give each one a hug and send them off to have fun.  

I can't say if Poles personal friendship was a conflict of interest.  Logic says it likely was but can't say for sure.

Regardless, he did think "Flus was the right guy" as you said.  That cannot be denied.  As I mentioned earlier in this thread, Poles offensive evaluations (both players and coaches) thus far have not been impressive.  DJ Moore was a clear hit and I fully believe Rome will be as well.  Caleb Williams was obviously a no-brainer.  Everything else he's touched on offense, players and coaches, has not been good.  Not yet anyway.

Ric, I'm not disputing the OL is a major problem and is making things much harder than they should be.  Regardless, FLUS-WALDRON STILL SHOULD HAVE WON THAT GAME.  Bears had a far superior roster on the field even with a shoddy OL.  Coaching malpractice cost us at least 10 points.

My main gripe with the coaches is forward looking.  I posted here just before the season opened that it was one of my biggest concerns.  Others here also had the same worry.  What if the OL was "league average" right now?  Would you have confidence in these coaches?  I wouldn't.

It's year 3 for Flus.  He's out of excuses in my book.  If and Waldron managed the personnel well and called a good game and we still lost cuz the OL blew chunks, I wouldn't be on their case.  They didn't do that.  They ADDED to the problems rather than mitigating them.

RoJo is your best lead back.  Certainly your best 1st & 2nd down back running between the tackles.  I'm just a dumb fan and I can see that plainly.  That's just one example of how much these coaches are sucking ass right now.  What I am scared of is that guys will never be able to win a playoff game cuz they will get schooled by far better coaches every time.

Oh, and it would be nice if your HC was prepared for 2 after scoring a TD in 14-9 game.  He wasn't.  He signaled for a kick and sent the PAT team out there.  That's indefensibly bad.  It actually hadn't occurred to him that maybe he should have thought that through.  Same thing as last year.


Matt Eberflus -- "Mr. September"